Title Image

Vento360 V-1

Micro-Wind Turbine

Vento360

The Vento360 is a commercial grade, long lasting, low maintenance wind turbine consisting of a proprietary alternator which is installed at the top of a metal pipe mast. An ASA (acrylonitrile styrene acrylate) plastic 3D printed three bladed vertical axis turbine is slid over the alternator and affixed to it. The entire construction is extremely durable, yet in the event of extremely high forecasted wind, the light-weight turbines can easily be slid off the generator and removed from the roof by our local partner.

ASA plastic, used worldwide in Lego blocks, is UV protected and non-yellowing, has a high resistance to moisture and is re-cyclable. We never put any plastic in the ground. We recycle in-house used turbine parts into small pellets which are extruded and used to produce new turbines using our additive manufacturing equipment.

If the volume of turbines to be installed on the Caribbean Island or group of islands warrants it, we install a commercial grade 3D printer on the island for the local production of the turbine parts, reducing our carbon footprint of otherwise having to ship completed parts.

A Vento360 produces between 600 and 800 watts per hour in wind between 18 and 24 mph of wind. Assuming the wind blew at the median point, one Vento360 would produce over 6,000 KwH annually eliminating about 1.5 metric tons of CO2 emissions a year. One hundred turbines would eliminate 150 metric tons yearly.

The Company

The Company and our partners and suppliers have decades of experience in fluid dynamics and aerospace technologies, electrical engineering, structural engineering, polymer science and the design and manufacture of electrical motor alternators specific to wind turbines. Scalable urban wind generation as a service to enterprises is our business and singular focus.

We always partner with a well-regarded electrical contractor local to the area of installation or with the electrical contractor preferred by the building owner. Local contractors are totally familiar with the local electrical code and permitting process. They are our boots on the ground during the entirety of the power purchase agreement locally available for the design, installation, operation, maintenance and removal of the turbines at term end.

We founded our company on the belief that existing urban and suburban buildings with their high roof tops are ideal sites for cost effective renewable wind solutions not well served by horizontal axis (propeller type) wind turbines. Propeller type turbines do best in wind environments that are turbulence free. Wind shear typically leads to maintenance issues, breakdown, high cost and low output. Urban environments, with their multiple and varying building structures, have highly turbulent wind patterns.

Our Vento360 micro-wind turbine is unaffected by turbulent wind environments and is naturally 100% omnidirectional, without the use of any pointing, pitching or yawing mechanics. It is designed to be installed in multiples and the installation appears as an architectural element sitting above and behind the roof parapet,

Photovoltaic (PV) solutions are seeing increasing adoption in urban environments although PV output, dependent on the specific azimuth of the sun’s rays upon the PV panels and weather, produces energy for only a limited period of time during the (cloudless) day. In contrast, wind can, and often does, blow 7 by 24, potentially allowing for a much higher energy output relative to the square footage used on the roof. That said, our turbines can work in a hybrid model with rooftop solar panels and/or with battery storage solutions.